"To think that no other person from Earth has ever seen Saturn and its
rings so close!" Wilma said. "I wonder what Titan will be like?"
"Well," Buck replied, "it won't be long now."

Last week, while earthlings nearly a billion miles away marveled as they
monitored its progress, an all-seeing but unmanned spacecraft no larger
than a compact car completed the final and most spectacular phase of an
epochal journey. Beating Buck Rogers and the faithful Wilma, sci-fi
heroes of...